X-Linked Inheritance. X-Linked Inheritance. Traits that are determined by alleles carried on the X chromosome are referred to as X-linked. X-linked alleles require a specific notation: X c or X + where the â+â represents the dominant allele and the lowercase letter the recessive allele.
Owners of the Swiss cheese plant may wonder about its unusual appearance ( RF Company / Alamy) Swiss cheese plants are climbers that grow in the understorey of tropical American forests and are technically hemiepiphytes. That is, they start off in the ground like any normal plant.
Swiss Cheese. A popular term used in various specialties referring to a gross appearance, microscopic pattern, or morphology characterised by multiple, sharply demarcated variably sized and randomly scattered rounded spaces superimposed on a relatively homogeneous or solid background, thus being likened to Swiss cheese.iver Swiss cheese refers to the changes in the liver in peliosis hepatis which is punctuated by multiple 0.2 mm in diameter blood-filled lacunae, often devoid of endothelial lining, which may represent distended sinusoids or vessels. Lung.